Mad Mothers, Bad Mothers, and What a "Good" Mother Would Do : the Ethics of Ambivalence /

When a mother kills her child, we call her a bad mother, but, as this book shows, even mothers who intend to do their children harm are not easily categorised as 'mad' or 'bad'. The maternal example is particularly instructive for ethical theory, highlighting the dynamics of huma...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: LaChance Adams, Sarah
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : Columbia University Press, 2014.
Temas:
Mothers > Conduct of life.
Ambivalence.
Mother and child.
Mothers.
Mother-Child Relations
Mothers
Mères > Morale pratique.
Mère et enfant.
Mères.
mothers.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Public Policy > Cultural Policy.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Anthropology > Cultural.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Popular Culture.
FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS > Parenting > Motherhood.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Table of Contents; Acknowledgments; 1. Mad Mothers, Bad Mothers, and What a "Good" Mother Would Do; 2. The Mother as Ethical Exemplar in Ethics; 3. Motherhood's Janus Head; 4. Maternity as Vulnerability in the Philosophy of Emmanuel Levinas; 5. Maternity as Dehiscence in the Flesh in the Philosophy of Maurice Merleau-Ponty; 6. Maternity as Negotiating Mutual Transcendence in the Philosophy of Simone de Beauvoir; Conclusion: The Stranger of My Flesh-an Existential Phenomenological Ethics; Notes; Bibliography; Index.

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